Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law

The European Court of Human Rights has largely developed its interpretation of human rights in environmental cases addressing actual harm from close-by sources and linear chains of causation. In the KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho cases, the...

This article deals with the conditions for prosecuting the Russian President Putin for the crime of aggression. The focus is on the question of whether a regional tribunal under the auspices of the Council of Europe could proceed without regard to...

The decision from 2022, discussed in the article, has led to heated debates. It made and will continue to make abortions very difficult in several US-states. It also goes against a trend in most of the world’s countries to liberalise abortion...

Material approaches to international law have emerged as a new way to understand how international law structures our world. One particular object of international law serves as the basis of examination in this paper – the souvenirs that are sold...

This paper explores the international legal dimension of parliamentary visits to places of armed conflict and disputed territories. The analysis takes place against the backdrop of controversial visits by MPs of several states to the occupied...

The article explores the responses by certain States to the introduction and application of the National Security Law in Hong Kong in 2020, on the assumption that it breaches the Sino-British Joint Declaration and fundamental human rights of the...

In recent years, security and defence have emerged as prominent fields of European Union (EU) integration, notably after the Russian aggression against Ukraine. However, the formal role of the European Parliament (EP) has not adapted to this...

In the absence of a universal human rights court, the individual communications before the United Nations (UN) treaty bodies allow for a low-threshold ‘court-like’ and, therefore, indispensable complaint mechanism for individuals. Notably...

Despite its aspirational name, our discipline has slowly come to understand that ‘international’ law is anything but international. Increasingly, new waves of scholarship have dissected the famous image of the ‘invisible college’, revealing...

The display of Prisoners of War on social media has become an everpresent feature of international armed conflicts. Still, the limits of digital exposure have not yet been adequately defined under international law. The article analyses the legal...

Bei extraterritorialem Handeln stellen sich Fragen nach der Geltung grundrechtlicher Schutzpflichten. Wenn Projekte im Rahmen der Entwicklungsarbeit die Verwirklichung sexueller und reproduktiver Gesundheit und Rechte fördern, ist der deutschen...